I am having an issue with the default value not being honored for an
undefined dictionary. For example, if the setup is as follows
*- name: something*
* file:*
* path: /somepath*
* owner: "{{ dir['owner'] | default('root') }}"*
and I have a variable of
*dir:*
* owner: someowner*
when I run this, a file called* /somepath *is created with the owner
*someowner*, as expected. However, if the dictionary dir does not exist, I
get an error of
*"the field 'args' has an invalid value, which appears to include a
variable that is undefined. The error was: 'dir' is undefined*
instead of running with the default as I would have expected. if I flatten
the variable structure to be
*dir_owner: someowner*
and change the task to be
*- name: something*
* file:*
* path: /somepath*
* owner: "{{ dir_owner | default('root') }}"*
this works as expected. The owner of the file is either someowner if
defined or root if not.
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